Information Exposure Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-GHOSTSCRIPT-381926
  • published7 Mar 2017
  • disclosed7 Mar 2017

Introduced: 7 Mar 2017

CVE-2013-5653  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 ghostscript to version 9.18dfsg0-0ubuntu2.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

The getenv and filenameforall functions in Ghostscript 9.10 ignore the "-dSAFER" argument, which allows remote attackers to read data via a crafted postscript file.